Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?
by Macha on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:45PM
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I don't think that's what he's saying. Of course, Joe Small Business Owner is going to care more about new features in Outlook or Excel than about new features in AWS. But I don't think _developers, specifically_ are looking out for the new office extension APIs in the same way they're looking for e.g. improvements to EKS.
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Re:Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?
by scarface74 on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:25PM
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If only 4% of all enterprise spend is on any cloud provider and AWS has I believe 36% of the market, and on top of that AWS has 260 services (at least that’s the number of distinct IAM resource types), I would think there was a larger third party market for Office extensions and dark matter developers doing Office/Sharepoint automation than who cared about a new AWS feature.
There are a lot more people working at AWS dependent on MS office than MS people depending on an Amazon service…..